1876.] 



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thus new colonies are formed, and of course a 

 sub-pendulous habit is an advantage to the 

 spread of the Tillandsia. With yards in length 

 of this " moss " hanging in every direction from 

 a grand Live Oak tree, it seems to make the per- 

 fection of arborescent beauty. 



Garden Edgings. — Those who do not like box, 

 or are in climates too cold for it, should by all 

 means use the Globe Arbor Vitas. It can be laid 

 just as box is laid, and bears trimming just the 

 same as box if not better. We recently saw 

 some beautiful edgings at the nursery of Geo. 

 Achelis, at West Chester. When full grown it is a 

 beautiful ornament. Here is a sketch of one as 

 growing on the grounds of Wm. E. Mercer, Esq., 

 of Bucks Co., Pa. 



ScHizosTYLis cocciNEA. — A few years ago we 

 saw this beautiful plant in flower in a garden 

 near Philadelphia, but have missed it lately. We 

 suppose it is 3'et in some of our gardens. We 

 are reminded of it by the following sketch in the 

 Gardener's Magazine. 



" This is one of the most valuable of plants, 

 either for conservatory decoration or for growing 

 in any warm sheltered nook, for supplying cut 

 flowers during autumn, and no garden, however 

 small, should be without it. In order to have 

 strong plants, it shoiild be planted out early in 

 the spring, in beds specially prepared for that 

 purpose, as it grows much more vigorovisly 

 treated in this way than it doesjwhen confined in 

 pots. The beds should be formed of some rich 



Abies ENGELMANNn.— On the grounds of W. R. 

 Mercer, Esq., of Bucks Co., Pa., we recently saw 

 two fine specimens of Engelmann Sjjruce. One 

 was about three feet high, and probably larger 

 than Mr. Gray's at Boston, which we had sup- 

 posed hitherto, was the largest in cultivation. As 

 is well known, there is a remarkable tendency to 

 vary among coniferous plants, and hence our 

 readers will not be suriorised to learn that there 

 was much difierence between these two plants in 

 habit and other characters. This beautiful Colo- 

 rado spruce seems well adapted to eastern cul- 

 ture, and we hope to see it become common. 



vegetable material, such as leaf soil and good 

 fresh loam, or any refuse peat that has been cast 

 aside as unfit for potting purposes. If either of 

 the above materials can be spared to form a bed 

 from 6 to 10 inches deep, there will be no diffi- 

 culty in growing such plants of Schizostylis as 

 will produce an abundant supply of its rich 

 scarlet Gladiolus-like blossoms during the greater 

 part of the winter. WTiere supplies of leaf soil 

 or peat are not to be had, it may be grown tolera- 

 bly well in any ordinary soil that has been well 

 enriched with rotten dung previous to planting. 

 Its flag-like leaves are rather subject to red 



